ca. 1958 - 1958 image of the new organ as published in the 1964 Schlicker catalog. (Photograph from an archival source: Schlicker catalog ca. 1964, submitted by Scot Huntington/Scot Huntington)
2007-02-13 - Identified through information on the Seminary web site. -Database Manager
2012-01-11 - Updated through online information from Paul Grime. -Database Manager
2018-05-21 - Subsequent tonal changes by Roderer in 1970 and Noack in 1990, at which time Dudley Terrill built a new Schlicker-style console; the organ was renovated and cleaned by Buzard 2000-2002, with minor renovations and tonal changes by them in 2008. -Database Manager
2023-01-02 - This was Schlicker's first major commission for a University, and resulted in a steady number of commissions thereafter, largely for universities in the mid-west, and Lutheran colleges and churches in particular, most notably St. Olaf in Minnesota and Valaraiso University in Indiana. This large A-frame chapel was designed by the eminent architectural firm Eero Saarinen & Associates, also favored by Lutheran denominations from the late 50s and through the 1960s. The organ was designed by Herman Schlicker in collaboration with Dean Carl Halter and consultant Paul Bunjes of Concordia Teacher's College, River Forest, Illinois. Bunjes would go on to become a frequent collaborator with the Schlicker company in particular, designing instruments in an extreme neo-baroque style, and who was the author of a substantial treatise on "The Praetorius Organ" in the late 1960s for which Schlicker built a display organ with sample pipes built to supposed Praetorian specifications with extremes in scaling between male (narrow) and female (wide) scaling diameters. The Kramer Chapel organ was subsequently altered by Roderer, Noack, and Buzard, with a new solid-state console by Noack and Terrill in the 1990s. -Scot Huntington
Source: Stoplist from Schlicker catalog 1964
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Concordia Theological Seminary
Schlicker Organ Co., 1958 - Original Specifications
GREAT ORGAN
16 Quintadena 61
8 Principal 61
8 Rohrfloete 61
4 Octave 61
4 Spitzfloete 61
2-2/3 Quint 61
2 Schwegel 61
IV-VI Mixture 354
Chimes (prep) (__)
16 Swell to Great
8 Swell to Great
4 Swell to Great
16 Positiv to Great
8 Positiv to Great
POSITIV ORGAN
8 Quintadena 61
4 Rohrfloete 61
2 Principal 61
1-1/3 Klein-Nasat 61
1 Siffloete 61
III-IV Scharf 286
8 Krummhorn 61
4 Regal 61
Tremolo
8 Swell to Positiv
4 Swell to Positiv
SWELL ORGAN (Expressive)
8 Gedeckt 61
8 Salicional 61
8 Voix Celeste (tc) 49
4 Principal 61
4 Hohlfloete 61
2 Blockfloete 61
II Sesquialtera (tc) 98
IV-V Mixture 293
III Cymbel 183
16 Dulzian 61
8 Trompette 61
4 Schalmei 61
Tremolo
16 Swell to Swell
4 Swell to Swell
PEDAL ORGAN
16 Principal 12
16 Bourdon 32
16 Quintadena (Gt) --
8 Octave 32
8 Quintadena (Gt) --
4 Choralbass 32
2 Nachthorn 32
IV Mixture 128
16 Posaune 32
4 Fagott 32
8 Great to Pedal
8 Swell to Pedal
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